There’s no thing as a corporation with a heart!  No large corporation ever gave it’s workers anything they weren’t forced into by competition or unionization. That’s a myth fostered by big corporations like Big Pharma etc.

To Big Pharma, selling their products is much more important than killing a “few” customers.  How dirty can you get?  It isn’t enough that drug companies use phony test reports to get their drugs approved by the FDA.  And, Big Pharma has managed to get a majority of drug manufacturers workers on the FDA board that approves all new drugs! (Yes, the FDA, originally formed to protect us, now only protects Big Pharma in effect.)

Nor, is it enough that they use more phony reports to fool consumers (and MD’s) into believing that vitamins aren’t needed.  If that’s so, why are drug companies all over the world trying to take over such?  You know that supplements will increase in price if that happens!

Did you know that third year medical school students get gifts and even money every month?  Big Pharma also spends thousands of dollars every month on every MD in various forms ranging from outright bribery, to “free” samples.  That’s bribery, but it’s spun again to look better.  Many of the better MD’s are starting to refuse such samples, and not allow drug salespeople in their office.  All too few.

In my not so humble opinion, what I found out recently is the ultimate in “spin”, worthy even of Carl Rove. The drug lobby PhRMA actually commissioned some authors to write a “fiction” novel about some terrorists in Canada that were poisoning drugs purchased by Americans.  The book deal fizzled, and the authors reportedly were offered $100,000 to keep the deal quiet.  This was first reported by Lloyd Grove, a columnist for the New York Daily News,

It was also reported that this same lobby had its budget increased by one million bucks just to discourage US citizens from buying Canadian drugs.

Of course, we can all understand why Big Pharma wants to discourage drug buying in Canada.  Those drugs are sold there at half or less of the US price.  This loses profit, and it also makes the truth about drug actual costs pretty plain to all.  Drug companies are among the richest in the country, and getting richer all the time.